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Published: 2014-11-09 19:40:03 +0000 UTC; Views: 713; Favourites: 20; Downloads: 0
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I haven't drawn the cast of Sketching Boredom in looong time, so I decided to do some "concert" pictures of them. I'm updating all of their designs, just a tad though. But I'm pleased with this. Those are the best goddam shoes I've drawn, XD.I'm going to ahead and put his character info below, it'll be like a ref sheet even though it isn't. But since I have redesigned him, I want people to see this redesign instead of the old ones for drawing reference.
Name: Hikaru
Species: Sorrow Neko
Sex: Male
Age: Early twenties
Personality: Shy, serious, thoughtful, formal
He has a very timid and dark personality. He is only outspoken towards his friends. He has a hard time trusting people and often questions his own existence. He's also very repressed in terms of his sexuality.
Character Items: Dead Trees and Crows
Despite being shy, Hikaru is the frontman for my fictional band of OCs called "Sketching Boredom". He loves to perform, but is a little afraid of attention. He gets support from his best friend, Shizurou, who is also in the band.
His voice has two ranges. He has a high-pitched range (but not really high like a little boy, more like David Stephens from "We Came As Romans"). The higher range is what I call "Chibi Hikaru".
He also has a low range. With his low range, he can scream. His voice is very smooth and operatic, except for when he screams.
Hikaru can play the electric and acoustic guitar, piano, drums, bass, cello, and other stringed instruments.
His first language is English, but he can also speak Japanese and Latin. He was originally from Japan.
His favourite genres are operatic/symphonic metal, metal, rock, alternative, pop-rock, and opera.
Here are some examples on how I imagine his voice to sound like:
High range + screaming
Tenor (operatic talent)
Another high voice range
More of a middle-high range
Low Voice
I write lyrics for them, you can read them HERE
PLEASE DO NOT USE, REPOST, DISTRIBUTE WITHOUT MY PERMISSION. ALL MY ART AND WRITINGS BELONG TO ME
Made using Prismacolour art markers.
"Hikaru" is part of Sketching Boredom, which was created by (Cedric David Panther, aka ME)
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Comments: 31
The resemblence to Shindo Hikaru from Obata Takeshi/Hotta Yumi's Hikaru no Go is uncanny.
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huh, that is interesting. I have never before heard of this character before, but looking him up, I see what you mean. Weird. It's like that time I had a Silent Hill dream before I was even aware what that even was. I guess this is the banality of anime character design.
~Ced
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I like it, its anime and I admit, i am a bit of an anime nerd, will be till the day I die.
I like how you got creative trying to give it a kinda of morbid yet innocent punk atmosphere. The pants were done well on the shadowing as well for this style. Tail is good for the style, I can tell you put a lot of effort and work into this.
Now the nitty gritty part, suggestions.
Honestly I would suggest looking up references, pose references being one of those. The arms are a little long and the style your using, while they might extend the body a bit in general, it still needs to be, for the most part, proportionate. Sometimes the legs definitelly aren't, such as in Bishi style(their are styles within the styles of manga and anime, bishi is specifically a style with taller characters, longer legs, usually the more narrow eyes etc etc etc-its known as a romantic style and generally has more detail than other styles of manga/anime drawings). You can use pose references, however a good technique to get it right, particularly in the beginning(its what I used many years ago and still do sometimes actually, its a good way to quickly and efficiently get a pose before you get into really drawing something). Here are some references so you know of what I am talking about and get the general gyst.
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Another thing, and I know I struggled with this in the beginning as well, is you have to remember that arm is coming toward you, its not flat.
Now, I did go through my stuff and this is highly embarrassing because I tend to basically tell realism to go screw itself most of the time. I am an impressionist. I know how to do realism but... I tend to prefer using a more dream like style, i guess you could call it. Here are some examples of how arms are not flat, some are anime in nature and some are not.
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The following are more examples, however more as to how you can change the perspective of a whole piece just by doing this, one of them is just a sketch I did forever back(and not even the 'finished version' because I had trouble finding it, so bare with me.
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If you want an example that shows a more subtle incline of the arm...
www.deviantart.com/art/30OC-Pu… this artist did a decent job in a style you are using with a similar theme(although the character is not human they are more humanoid-its a sonic character from the more anime style version). If that is more what your trying to do, this might be helpful. For more subtle inclines I would suggest paying very close attention to how shadow and light play across things, items, and especially people.
When I use references I often search up 'pose reference' or 'stock' on deviantart. Their are some talented people on here who post themselves in various poses and situations just to help fellow artists study the body, movement, how lighting and shadowing hit etc etc etc. I don't do so often but when I do I do give credit to the ones I use. Most times I don't, but when I need that lil bit of 'how would this look' that is where I go. Their are a couple people who are also really good you run across when going through senshistock's submissions.
With the cloths, you did a great job on the pants but you forgot the shadowing for the greater part, on the shirt. The pants indicate a darker side of the body, the shirt does not. This alone would give a more 2d instead of one dimensional appearance. Even without the other stuff. If you need help I found a reference doing a yahoo search for it.
images.search.yahoo.com/images… Just try to keep in mind, the brighter the light, the darker the shadow. If the room is darker the shirt is not going to be bright and shining unless their is light on it. I applaud your observation skills however, as white shirts are indeed usually lighter seeming in their shadows. It can make it harder. I used to be terrible with white, it was the last thing I learned to do in shadowing. I found doing some sketch's usually helped me with that, maybe doing some black and white sketch's will help you as well. It tends to help with the skill of doing more subtle shadowing in things like this.
Hope this helps.
-Luna
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Thanks for your comment, Luna!
I see what you mean about the arms. This was made back in ol '14, so perhaps that is not too much of a problem I hope anymore. Sometimes this happens with style-jumping as I call it. I have a style called "Lange" which means Long in German, and that's what it is: long and tall. So perhaps some of that seeped here. It happens.
I see what you mean about the shirt. Some of this I attribute to scanner settings. My scanner likes to wash out colours so I tried to adjust it, but perhaps not enough. I will have the shadows even darker in the future.
~Ced
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Indeed, i've done the style jumping thing when I have practiced different styles to keep my skills sharp.
Hm, that is interesting. I have not yet heard of "Lange" as a style but then I don't live in Germany. I enjoy learning about styles of which I don't know. Do you mind if I ask more about it?
Hm, indeed. I have similar problems with the cell phone camera. It sort of whitewashes the colors a bit. Nothing is ever as vibrant and their is always those little details that sort of don't show in the photo because the camera is digital and is programmed to try and take out what it is programmed to think are 'flaws'. In many ways technology is far from perfect. I remember as a teen I always had to darken everything. I hated scanning. Some scanners would make it darker and bolden it even till details were blended together, some couldn't perceive different tones at all and flattened the color, others could barely pick up the image at all and would just do white where parts of the image was, especially when it was done in pencil. So I must admit, I know exactly to which you are referring. Pesky scanners and camera's. The only advice I can give with that is to just do your art the way it is meant to be regardless of the scanner. It will be much better in person always and I think that adds something to art and encourages people to look more at it. At least that is my experience. I have not used a scanner in many years but I do hear you. They have not gotten much better as far as scanning art. If anything the whole thing of trying to gloss over any supposed flaws in photographs leads to a whole lot of things being fainter than they should be in digital cameras(unless otherwise designed-and those are typically really expensive) and scanners alike.
Well, at least you can adjust yours to be better than I could back in the day, at least they are a little better. lol
Still, I can definitely understand. Scanners tend to be even more of a pain overall then even a cell phone camera... but both have issues. I will say this though, I do not miss my grandfathers scanner from when I was a teen... that thing was absolute hell to work with in regards to art and photo's were always washed out much like what my camera does to anything I take pictures of. It does tend to get annoying.
I wish you luck, definitely better luck than I had with scanners. And better than I am having using a cell phone camera too.
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Oh, Lange is not a German style. It is just the name I gave it. I based the style upon the works of Tim Burton (which I am sure you are familiar with), the style of an animated short called Backwater Gospel
Here's some examples of Lange style
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NOTE: this one is on my old account, it is still my work
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Yes, technology is very picky. I have to get a new scanner since my old one is not compatible with my new laptop 
~Ced
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Ah yes, very familiar with that. Tim Burton's style dealt in a lot of long legs and arms, the bodies usually as well though obviously not as much longer as the legs and arms so its not quite as obvious. Much like bishi but with his own flare.
One of his more famous movies(at least here-I don't know about everywhere else in the world) came out when I was a kid. The Nightmare Before Christmas. He has an interesting way of making characters that might otherwise be considered scary rather lovable. Not just as characters but also how he draws them. The villains weren't scary, but their motives were still evil and you still wanted the 'good guys' to stop them etc etc etc.
If you note me the specifics I might be able to figure out if you can do an adapter to make it work. Me and my grandfather used to build computers. If I don't know and I can't find anything I could always ask him. Worst case scenario their is no adapter and you still have to get a new scanner. We used to make a lot of parts that weren't supposed to work together, work together. Depending on the adapter you could save money on it too.
Yeah... I am not sharing my old account(not that you asked but I am volunteering the information as it were-my old account got hacked along with the e mail address and pretty much everything else associated with it I didn't get to in time-which was mostly everything because it was my main e mail account at the time). My first attempts at digital art looked kinda... well they sucked. I'd never drawn on a computer in my life and it was infinitely awkward to try drawing with a mouse, which is what all that stuff was... my first photo manips weren't bad but my digital drawings... oh yeah, they sucked balls. Anytime I learn a whole new medium I have never even touched anything like before(like drawing with a mouse) it always sucked for a little while till I get the hang of it. You are truly brave. I'd be picking at everything in it. I didn't so much as know how to blend or anything so everything was so flat and my mouse stuck so undo was my only friend when I started learning how to do it... its kinda like starting over if you don't have someone to show you anything and kinda just take it on your own like I did. I had people who showed me some stuff later down the road but my beginning stuff for the digital art medium still sucks balls. NOTHING was the way I wanted it to be. Give me a pencil, a tissue, and an eraser and I can do amazing things. Digital art though took a lot of work to learn for me.
I didn't really name my style, I just follow the same principles artists like van gouge did with their art. If it doesn't convey the feeling or feelings then what is the point? sort of stuff.
I like yours though... I feel like I have a clearer picture of your art now having talk to you about it and being shown your style. 
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Yes, I very much admire Tim Burton's work. I really want him to do more stop-motion films!
I am sorry to hear that your old account was hacked. That is no fun.
What kind of details would you need to know? Like the make of computer and the type of scanner I have?
Thank you so much! I appreciate that! I agree with you!
~Ced
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Yeah. Me too. He tends to do good work. Has a depth to it other stuff doesn't have so much of the time. I think though that has a lot to do with how much of himself he seems to put into his work. As artists we are the soul of our work, each painting each drawing, we put a bit of ourselves into it and a lot of artists today sometimes ignore that or just think technical skill is all that matters. I think its what is expressed that truly matters and if you feel you have adequately done so. If you don't like your own art then what is the point? It always looks like Tim Burton is having fun and he puts a lot of realistic themes in his movies, just the stuff people tend to ignore. Sometimes I wonder if he even realizes he does it. A lot of people are brought up in a world where they basically are told to just ignore it and sometimes subconsciously, we can acknowledge things in our art. I can see reading what I just wrote why my ex husband hated that I read a lot of sociology and medical psychology books. It's generally stuff people don't' want to hear though to be fair, I wasn't rubbing his nose in it, just being calm while he was screaming and yelling and carrying on and when he asked why I told him. To be fair, he did ask but I certainly didn't ask for him to throw out my books on the subject. Some people are assholes and calm logic can piss them off so fair warning if you ever you know, find things like that interesting, just be mindful and courteous of others... but if they ask that is fair game. Never ask a question to hear what you want to hear. Just ask to get the answer. I don't even know to this day why he was mad, I mean he did ask. He knew I psychoanalyzed people when we met so its not like that was gonna change and pitching my books wasn't going to change anything accept maybe hurt my feelings and piss me off because I love books, enjoy reading them and love studying different subjects.
Anyway, got off track their.
Yeah, it was hacked. It wasn't fun. Had some important stuff in some of the accounts that were hacked.
Yeah, basically. The make and model, basic stuff just to identify what model the computer and the scanner are so I can see what is compatible.
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Yes, that is the sad truth.
Okay, I'll probably get that information to you next weekend since I don't have my scanner but I may still have the installation disc and that might give me some information. Thanks again!
~Ced
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Hi! This is on behalf of ProjectComment
I think there are many commendable things here, the first is the completeness of the piece and the dedication you must've certainly put into it. And overall you accomplished some great green-red contrasts and a character full of personality.
I think there are directions that you should take your practices, the main two being form and perspective. As for the former, the figure is suffering from flatness. The character looks a bit like a cardboard cutout and hardly feels like he's really there. The solution for this is Constructive drawing, look into the work of Glenn Vilppu and Andrew Loomis and familiarize yourself with drawing using forms as opposed to 2D.
When it comes to perspective, It's important that you at least learn some essential basics. Right now, the floor plane is flattened because the pattern you put on it is the same size and spread over its entire depth. Look at this quick thing I made to explain the effect of a pattern in a plane in perspective sta.sh/01sh5ypbjip4 . Basically, the dots would 'bunch up' at farther points and align themselves along lines that lead to the plane's vanishing point.
The last thing I'll talk about is design. I get some horror vacui vibes from this (given by the graffiti at the back) but I don't feel like you commit enough to the concept of horror vacui so instead it just feels cluttered. So perhaps the not to take form this is either less is more, or commit to the clutter.
In any case, I hope this is helpful and that you're satisfied with this critique. Keep at it and good luck!
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Thanks for your comment!
Your references are very helpful, thank you for that, especially on the dots. I am not very creative with interior design or perspectives of buildings, so I usually just use basic straight flat lines. This will help me in future works!
I understand why you would get horror vibes due to the skull, but that was not the intention of the piece. The skull itself is part of the decoration of the wall, as the wall is covered in graffiti, as he is on a punk-themed stage. Plus, I really just like drawing skulls XD
Thanks again.
~Ced
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Oh I'm glad this was helpful. I'd like to make a slight clarification, Horror vacui refers to a style where empty spaces are filled with clutter. Right now the piece is too uncluttered to be horror vacui and too cluttered to be clear, so you have to choose a direction to go in.
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Oh okay, I should have asked what that meant instead of guessing.
~Ced
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Haha, it's ok, it's a slightly obscure term.
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BTW I really like your username. It's not often that you come across someone who identifies as a crucial part of a neuron. XD
~Ced
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Hahaha, I chose it many years ago, personally I don't like it much anymore, and I'll be changing it as soon as I get core, but I'm glad you like it
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Oh I see. I understand that, too. I kinda dislike my own username upon discovering it was a fetish for some people
~Ced
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Cute.
The skeleton behind him looks like he might be fixing to grab him.
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Thanks! It's supposed to be like graffiti art, but yes, a rather giant skull XD
~Ced
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Good drawing... good position and also you have page for which you write.
I already saw all the videos of music, good example to have one better perspective on the personage.
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Gracias ! Me alegro de que se tomaron el tiempo para mirar mi página y miró a los vídeos ! Estoy muy agradecido! Voy a editar uno de el video , sin embargo . He encontrado un ejemplo mejor .
Gracias de nuevo por todo su apoyo .
~Ced
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You welcome… treatment to be kind to everything what beams, although depending if I remain without Internet… hahaha. That I happen to me in September.
And of the videos, always there will be the one best one.
Greetings Ced.
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Lol , la pérdida de la Internet es desafortunado , lo entiendo.
Gracias de nuevo , y buen día para usted!
~Ced
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Thank you. He's been with me for a while now, but I think I have him at a satisfactory point. He's gone through several updates.
~Ced
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I love his expression and his hair *°* !!!
also this detailed wall behind him looks pretty cool!!!
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Oh thank you so much! i'm glad you like it!
~Ced
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